Mike Jackson’s Hartland Photos:
WESTERN BROWN HATS
Text & Photographs Copyright Mike Jackson 1998-2008
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| Most riders seemed to get their own hat molds. Some of the hats are numbered or lettered on the underside of the crown, usually fairly visible. However, some hats like the Clayton Moore Lone Ranger hats have letters so fine, you really have to be searching for them. It is not uncommon to find some of the letters backwards or incomplete, such as the hat for The Texan-Bill Longley. I haven’t inspected every hat in my collection for numbering variations, but there could easily be other numbers or letters in some hats that I have not found. | ||
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| Davy Crockett : no number | ||
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| Sgt. Lance O’Rorke : no number, This hat is smaller than the Preston hat. | ||
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| Sgt. Preston : no number or letter, larger than O’Rorke’s hat. | ||
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| Josh Randall : 828, 28, 82 | ||
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| Some of the Gunfighters share hats with their Horse and Rider sets. However, Maverick and Hardie have smaller heads and were fitted with their very own hats. | ||
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| Wyatt Earp : no number or letter, same as Horse & Rider, often maroon, sometimes black. | ||
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| Vint Bonner : no number or letter | ||